20-Year Old Deandre Harris Speaks Out About Being Assaulted by White Supremacists in Charlottesville

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54. Unfortunately that is the point when the police would have shot the "defender" among others.

You may be unaware of the Greensboro Massacre in 1979. Bringing weapons to bear begets return fire rather than retreat. The Police were to blame for lack of control of the situation on that day too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_massacre

Rally
Four local TV news camera teams arrived at the Morningside Homes at the corner of Carver and Everitt streets to cover the protest march. Members of the CWP and other anti-Klan supporters gathered to rally the march, which was planned to proceed through the city to the Greensboro City Hall.
As the marchers collected, a caravan of ten cars (and a van) filled with an estimated 40 KKK and American Nazi Party members drove back and forth in front of the housing project. Several marchers beat at the cars with picket sticks or threw rocks at them. In response, the KKK and ANP members got out of their cars, took shotguns, rifles and pistols from the trunks, and fired into the crowd of protesters. Some of the latter were armed with handguns, which they fired during the brief conflict.[2] It is not entirely clear who fired the first shot.[2] Witnesses reported that KKK Mark Sherer fired first, into the air.[9] According to white supremacist Frazier Glenn Miller, the first shots were fired from a handgun by an anti-Klan demonstrator.[10]
The KKK and Nazi members quickly killed Cesar Cauce, Dr. James Waller, and Bill Sampson at the scene. Sandi Smith was shot between the eyes when she looked out from a place where she had taken shelter, and eleven others were wounded. Dr. Michael Nathan died of his wounds at the hospital.[11] The filmed coverage of the shootings was carried on national and international news. It became known as the "Greensboro Massacre." Smith was black, Cauce was Hispanic, and the other three men killed were white. Both blacks and whites were wounded.